Southwest Research Institute’s Energy Storage Technology Center® features a hybrid and electric vehicle battery testing laboratory for research and analysis of EV batteries, materials, chemistries, thermal management, and other components used in energy storage systems for electric cars, trucks, and personal mobility vehicles.
Our EV and HEV battery testing facility offers standard and custom testing services. SwRI is also a leader in research and development of electric vehicle batteries, packs, modules and integration technologies. We provide R&D and testing services across the electric powertrain.
“We are proud to serve the EV industry by bringing together manufacturers, suppliers and battery designers and developers with materials scientists to address a variety of challenges,” said Dr. Andre Swarts, an SwRI staff engineer in SwRI’s Automotive Propulsion Systems Department.
As the United States and other nations pursue stringent goals to limit carbon emissions, electrification of transportation has taken off, with the rate of EV adoption rapidly accelerating. (Some projections show EVs supplanting internal combustion vehicles over the next 30 years.)
As the number of EVs climbs, the fleet’s batteries could serve as a cost-effective, large-scale energy source, with potentially dramatic impacts on the energy transition, according to a new paper published by an MIT team in the journal Energy Advances.
Owens, who is building his dissertation on V2G research, is now investigating the potential impact of heavy-duty electric vehicles in decarbonizing the power system. “The last-mile delivery trucks of companies like Amazon and FedEx are likely to be the earliest adopters of EVs,” Owen says.